Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou discuss the CIA, how it has evolved, how it sees its mission, what it does, how it works, and the effects of its clandestine operations around the globe.
John Kiriakou worked for the CIA from 1990 to 2004, first as an analyst, and later as a counterterrorism operations officer overseas in Bahrain, Athens, and Pakistan, where he was the CIA’s Chief of Counterterrorist Operations.He became the sixth whistleblower indicted under the Espionage Act by the Obama administration and was sent to prison for two and a half years.
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top intro tune brother, good to see and hear you once again
Yesterday: Serbs against planned Gay parade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVWlQ0AQukI
How about the genocides in different countries bin Latin America the cover of American fruit company… The death squad finance the military coupes…??? #1 agency of human rights violations.. war crimes… The questions is everybody knows about it but that's it no one have been accountable if such violation all the criminals still free is there a international law that handles this charges…??? Are us ok for them to continue… Millions have already been killed.. a lot of countries are paying their illegal interfering… . Why this happened …. Where's the justice if there is justice… ???? No wonder si many countries in the world are looking another horizons … Friends and allies… !!! Countries are sovereign and should be respected … Not to be tl treated like back yard countries…!!!
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At the 6 minute mark I immediately thought of schiff. Weird.😆
Sorry, but the CIA operations branch/division was definitely not good before Sept. 11, 2001, and Bill Clinton was rogue, a real criminal. What kind of brain washing are we getting, here, I wonder. From what i learned from readings, from evidently good analysts, independent ones, during the 2000s, the Mujahideen in Afghanistan did not become the Taliban, but the Taliban did form from a serious number of the Mujahideen, just not all of them. Also, there had to be a lot more to the 9/11 attacks in the US than what is said in this video or episode. Whether you like it or not, it or they were very much an "inside job". I think that this might be the first time that I somewhat disagree with Chris Hedges. The Taliban did not form just because of the Pakistani govt and its ISI, but most of all because of the US, the US federal govt. The guest in this episode tells only a little of the story. It is a sad episode for a Chris Hedges Report. The 9/11 attacks were an inside job, and the US, with plotting by Zbigniew Brezenski was what drove the former USSR to invade Afghanistan, in order to help that govt defend itself against the Mujahiddeen formed by Washington, and the Pakistani ISI. It isn't theory. It is fact. I could say more, but will leave it at this for now.
The CIA should never have existed. They are nothing but chaos agents and the most vicious anti American organization in this government. This is an agency that needs to be eliminated from our government. I can no longer justify their existence. They must be eliminated by any means necessary.
The CIA has always done regime change. Collecting information is a means to an end. Empire building and maintenance is the name of the game.
The CIA does not participate in party politics because both parties in Gringoland are identically criminal in foreign relations which are reduced to illegal meddling and regime change to ensure repression and elimination of progressive governments in the Third World.
1) All of us who live in the "Imperial Core" have a grotesque amount of blood on our hands.
2) This was an excellent interview.
3) JFK was an ultra-hawk there was no reason for the CIA to kill him.
CIA is Americas assassinations team.
If you're going to wear the white hat and the tin star, you've got to play by the rules.
In the 70s we found out they where out of control trying to find mind control they claimed assassin's didn't work there but we know no they have been killing ppl regularly and openly they raised hell in central and south America committing genocide murder and deposing democraticly elected government they openly hire and deploy paramilitary units and openly kill opposition
The Mob changed the motorcade route and botched the autopsy? C'mon John and Chris… furthermore, I wouldn't forget the close ties the "agency" has with "the family"……
My question is What good do the CiA do for any American citizen, does it's existence make him safer?
We don’t need this agency. They don’t do anything to protect the country and their citizens, they are there to protect the interests of the corrupt elites and government.
75+ years of operations with a maximum of 15 years ('75 -'90) of meaningful oversight…that can only result in one type of outcome; disastrous, both for America and, therefore, all states which follow, to a greater or lesser extent, her lead.
fascism sneaks up on the unwary democracy.
So Trump just did what the US done for other countries for ages, practicing same crime in his own country as custom. Not guilty, case closed. Good job.
Terrorized by Willie King & The Liberators
The CIA/MIC/FBI is the only things holding the U.S. Empire together and all three are evil self serving institutions.
Diane Feinstein a senile old war monger and is a senior capitalist gangster working on and. for the downfall of Western Civilization.~LOL
I don't think they ever had oversight. How could they have toppled so many democratically elected government. Iran-1953; Guatamala- 1954; Chile 1973 etc. etc.etc.
I'm writing an alternate history book. Where, the CIA actually helped Al Queada in the 9/11 attacks. I'm using the motivation that the attack would galvanize the capitalist base in the U.S. which was beginning to take up the concerns of the "human rights" era of Bill Clinton. But, in this wild scenario I need to make Hillary the true mastermind, and Bill a "Jerry" (see Rick and Morty).
The final plane crashed into a field because the government was actually being held hostage by these civilian planes. The USAF could not determine which aircraft were truly hijacked, nor did they know how many dozens or hundreds of planes were in play. Bush had to negotiate with terrorists… who could have been CIA or other intel operatives (I'd need to devise a scenario where field agents shifted loyalty to a world power, instead of smaller group called The United States Republic. They would have privacy, access, all of the things and the ability to prevent the US gov. from ever knowing what the CIA actually knew or did; which is not a stretch at all…).
It's true horror fiction that plays on the real doubts people have. Some people have doubts that there are actually monsters hiding in the dark; people dependent on immediate sight to verify reality.
A blind man can hear more than a sighted man can see… There are fewer ways to trick the audio processing sections of the mind. We hear doubt in the warble of vocal ligaments, the tongue, the teeth, the salivation, the hiss of exhaustion… Even when that person appears visually confident.
It makes me wonder how many animals use audible camouflage versus audible attacks. Humans use deer calls and duck calls to trick animals into believing an ally is doing something. Perhaps this is what dolphins have been able to do? Perhaps they survive against sharks, by using these social abilities?
So, what would have been the equivalent in human evolution? Creatures that take a form very similar to humans, by chance or physics (sharks swim with left / right strokes of their tails, while dolphins use up / down strokes. Perhaps the difference in humans is all in the mind… haha.
I'm sure someone will make this into a script. To them, I say… Better you than me.
Again and again, all the propaganda that the intelligence community is competent, loyal and extremely necessary for your safety is just a lie.
The CIA and the rest of the "intelligence community" operate exclusively for themselves and make the mass media complicit in their criminal operations.
Ironically, it only takes a tiny bit of intelligence to see that.
Not to mention that the CIA help finance and execute 9/11
Israel needs the CIA.
I've always thought I'd at least be a #corporal in the CIA caught and could not wait to get that #deskjob COMMENT brought me here AGAIN…THANKS
This guy is so full of crap! The CIA began when the US govt shut down the Nazi supporting bank owned by original American industrialists in the late 30’s for financially supporting Hitler. Prescott Bush was part owner of that bank and started the CIA to protect his business interests from further scrutiny.
Then his son George was made top guy.
On many levels.
I will put out an unpopular view that Chris is controlled opposition. He never lifts up the curtain on the real puppet masters of the Deep State. The Church Commission talked about the Big Bad CIA that started in 1948. They were able to whitewash their entire history from 1930.